People pay no attention when I tell them that in the arid West, you can rely on bears to have a midday swim in isolated water, like this spring pool. Photos taken yesterday and I’ve seen it many many times. If it’s cold it doesn’t work nearly so well of course. Heat of the day is the time. Food patches — berries, acorns, osha, osmorhiza, clover, grass, carrion and gut piles during hunting season, a saddle pass with good habitat on both sides, screaming rabbit predator calls … endless wasy to ethically and successfully hunt bears using woodsmanship rather than bait.
